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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Kansas City, MO

June 3, 1989Gentry County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1989, 12:21 AM CDT for Gentry County, Missouri. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 1989, 12:21 AM CDT (05:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1989, 1:15 AM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Gentry County, MO

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 171 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1989-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2042 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1989-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2042 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1292 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
4.9

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBuchanan54 min
Jun 2, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAndrew, Holt, Nodaway65 min
Jun 2, 9:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHolt62 min
Jun 2, 10:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison, Holt69 min
Jun 3, 1:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBuchanan58 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.